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Easiest would be to use a Windows 7 install DVD, but that will RESET the password (which may or may not be what you want): http://reboot.pro/topic/15751-reset-a-forgotten-windows-7-password-without-using-any-third-party-software-how-to-tutorial/ or a mini Linux distro: http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/ if you have a USB stick you can have a go at PassPass (shameless plug): http://reboot.pro/topic/18588-passpass-bypass-the-password/ the difference is that this latter will not modify your existing password, thus allowing you to log in with *any* password and then from the "normally" booted system you can run software to recover the actual password you have forgotten and (hopefully and in due time) recover it. jaclaz P.S.: I am pretty sure the above works also for your HP (for which you also lost the Windows 7 password): http://www.surfaceforums.net/threads/it-is-possible-to-reset-windows-7-password-without-reset-disk.20464/ http://forums.windowscentral.com/ask-question/418328-how-reset-windows-7-password-without-reset-disk.html In any case don't worry, soon a new member will give you a link to a Commercial tool, and you will optionally be able to post again confirming how it solved your issue.

Well, you already know the reason, but since you won't actually like it, let's say that it is my fault in being extremely stubborn in using Opera (Presto) accessing the board and - sometimes - not being completely and fully attentive in removing the artifacts created by Opera or by my careless typing. Removed excessive space in previous post. jaclaz

A windows specific install is essentially made of the Registry (or of settings in it) and the different hives are often "interconnected". The specific NTuser.dat may well "survive" the re-deploying of a system, but the links to it in SAM (and possibly SECURITY) will very likely be lost. On the other hand, if the "corruption" you experience is connected to one of those Registry hives (more technically to the files backing them), then you won't solve the problem by leaving them "as they are". More generally, the sheer moment you "exclude" any file from an /apply, you are not using anymore the /apply but something else, basically you could mount the .wim to a drive letter and copy just the files that you believe corrupted (or, say, alll .exe and .dll files, and BTW good luck with WinSxS and updates). Really, it cannot (and it won't IMHO) work (if not - maybe - in a very limited, specific number of cases, which will be anyway easier to fix in other ways), but if you are so convinced that it may work, why don't you simply try doing it next time you have a corrupted install? jaclaz

Sure , just like nit-picking is (at least to some humans). jaclaz

On a different date, with different board software (and possibly very different home page contents), from a different location and a different browser, what gives? A large part of the site loading time (and number of requests, and actual content) is highly dynamic AFAICU, for *some* reason the given site monitored a very large (and thus slow) site on Dec 1, 2015: http://httparchive.org/viewsite.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.msfn.org%2F&l=Dec%201%202015 and a much smaller (and thus faster) site on Dec 15, 2015: http://httparchive.org/viewsite.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.msfn.org%2F&l=Dec%2015%202015 Comparison: http://httparchive.webpagetest.org/video/compare.php?tests=151201_5_34S9-l:Dec%201%202015,151215_5_3860-l:Dec%2015%202015 jaclaz

That would be unreal, and, not-so-casually : http://www.theunrealtimes.com/2011/09/19/harvard-scientists-successfully-train-chimpanzees-to-use-twitter-and-gain-followers1/ jaclaz

No. jaclaz

I thought the thread was about people still using NT4 and 2K, and not about people still using or wishing to use XP, or Vista or any other system but NT4 or 2K nor about how much more convenient is 64-bit browsing is over 32-bit browsing . jaclaz

And, it had to happen, before or later: https://cve.mitre.org/ more or less "there are too many bugs in the wild and we cannot even list them in a timely fashion anymore". jaclaz

You need to use a "third party" tool capable of hiding the command window, these could range from a "simpler, hide only" tool, like cmdow or similar: http://www.commandline.co.uk/cmdow/ up to a "general helper" such as Nircmd: http://nircmd.nirsoft.net/exec.html You'll most probably need to deal with the UAC/Administrator prompt, however. jaclaz

You may use the offline sysprep approach. Offline Sysprep: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?&showforum=43 http://forum.driverpacks.net/viewtopic.php?id=3312 jaclaz

As many might have read lately, the MS guys put online on Twitter an experimental AI thingie, and in NO TIME the kids on twitter managed to make it become an almost total jerk. Just in case (example): http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/24/11297050/tay-microsoft-chatbot-racist Till now this is (as I see it) "normal", the thingie is experimental, the whole AI stuff is at its very early stages and the kids (and trolls) on Twitter are undoubtedly (let's take out any "moral" judgement) quite good at it. The "news" are that the goof MS guys posted an official apology (not really needed IMHO): http://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2016/03/25/learning-tays-introduction/ that sounds A LOT (at least to me) as a non-apology. The statement by Mr. Peter Lee - Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Research - about: even if followed by: makes NO sense whatsoever, you FAILED (and failed BADLY ) at it, there was no such thing as a "cordinated attack by a subset of people", or if there was, it would have been the first d@mn thing you should have tested in the laboratory before going public. All it takes is to get a few tens of average high school kids and let them play with the thingie a little bit, for a few hours, something that evidently is not within "standard" MS testing. Or simply listen to Cat Stevens jaclaz

Whenever something like this happens, don't forget the possibility of using the Wayback Machine: https://archive.org/ usually these files are archived, example for the #18997: https://web.archive.org/web/20150712215019/http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=18997 jaclaz

Something was seemingly lost in translation, it is more wishful thinking at this stage than anything else. MS China signed a contract with a Chinese IT company: https://translate.google.it/translate?sl=zh-CN&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=it&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fcompanies.caixin.com%2F2016-03-24%2F100924085.html&edit-text= jaclaz

Note (if needed). Normally BOOT.INI is C:\BOOT.INI and it is a small text file that you can open in Notepad with attributes Read Only, System and Hidden, so you will need to use command line and attrib to make it visible and writable and even to see it in Explorer you will need to set it to show hidden and system files. jaclaz

I attempted to spit the thread and move ONLY the OT posts (selected) to http://www.msfn.org/board/forum/23-site-amp-forum-issues/ but the WHOLE thread was moved , probably my bad can dencorso or xper move back the topic and spit it? jaclaz

Well, than they were 601 and that one on the Search wasn't fixed. performing a search "by Author" with an empty string results in: WHILE previous versions of the board resulted into *ALL* posts by the given Author, or all threads in which he/she posted (though limited to a given number of them, 1000 if I remember correctly). Maybe you could make a spin-off of the thread moving to it all OT posts? jaclaz

In my experience, you do happen to do something "wrong" from time to time, but when compared on the amount of "wrong" things the IP guys do, you are a kid That is YET ANOTHER thing they broke, we will see if it is among the more than 600 (that is six hundred ) bugs that allegedly they are going to fix in the 4.1.9 version (currently we are in 4.1.8). If we can go linearly that would probably be 600*18=10,800 bugs introduced since version 3.x, which must be a world record ... jaclaz

And now, risking to go off-topic, let's talk of Wi-Fi netiquette http://www.troyhunt.com/2015/12/no-you-cant-join-my-wifi-network.html (likely to be "next" point of discussion with friends) jaclaz

I have NO Facebook (let alone Twitter) accounts. (there is a reason for it, BTW) I have seen friends (real friends, that I know and believe are otherwise normally extremely nice chaps) have bitter arguments on it, particularly about the "give friendship"/"remove friendship" issue. Luckily I saw it coming early enough to completely avoid touching the thing at all, I find much easier to say "I am not on Facebook" than to have to deal with either lots of posts/updates by people that - really - have nothing of worth to say, but still they do say their nothing several times each day - or to unfriend people because too much is too much. As I see it the whole Facebook issues are revolving around "other people's judgements" or "general consensus" or "popularity" people post (whatever crap they personally find interesting or fun) and expect that their "friends" will unconditionally approve that, and when this - for whatever reason - does not happen they feel frustrated or misunderstood. It is not entirely unlike (if you pardon me the pun) the "like" mechanism here on the board, I chose (being admittedly an old grumpy bastard) to NEVER "like" any post, though there are often posts that would actually deserve to be liked, if you "like" that particlar one than the poster, after the (possibly) initial gratification will wonder why you don't "like" his/her next post, and meanwhile another member might start wondering why you "liked" that particular post and not his/her own one, initiating a sort of (IMHO senseless) kind of competition or research for appreciation. jaclaz

Wouldn't also Powershell do? https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/heyscriptingguy/2012/05/08/use-powershell-to-back-up-system-state-prior-to-making-changes/ OT, but You might want to appreciate how in 8 the feature has been bettered by limiting it to a single checkpoint per day https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh849822.aspx so, if you need more than one (like when you are testing new, dangerous things) you need to override the default: http://superuser.com/questions/994854/why-the-create-restore-point-script-work-differently-on-windows-7-and-on-windo EDIT: Oops, I see only now how xpclient's reply also mentioned this new behaviour in 8. jaclaz

This is a good example of how these kinds of things are highly subjective, being old and grumpy I interpret this as meaning that the MS guys are a bunch of headless chickens that have not any idea how to setup properly their own crappy update mechanism. jaclaz

Allow me to disagree. There is NO actual "suite" capable of predicting *anything* on a hard disk status of health. The data coming from S.M.A.R.T. (the thing I personally call D.U.M.B.) are nothing but a set of mostly meaningless metrics, which may (or may not) be a rough indicator of the "past" of the disk drive that bears little or no connection to its future. Flippism has roughly the same reliability (JFYI): http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/128807-the-solution-for-seagate-720011-hdds/?page=187#comment-1073898 http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/170237-which-drive-sould-i-get/It is entirely possible that the "old" hard disk (though it being actually old and though the decision to replace it with a new one remains anyway a good decision) had no real issues (yet) and the sluggishness originally came from some OS conflict with one or more of those background accesses to it, and this obviously has not been fixed with the mere replacement of the disk. jaclaz

What I find really "queer" is that the board software does (seemingly) use CKEditor: http://ckeditor.com/ With the same, "standard" configuration I use (browser and OS) , their demo page: http://ckeditor.com/demo works flawlessly (at least in the few tests I made), and includes a "Source" button that toggles between WYSIWYG and HTML (as opposed to the WYSIWYG<>BBcode) that also works fine and allows (when needed) minor manual corrections. This should mean that the IP guys managed to introduce *something* that effectively creates the "weird" behaviour I experience on the board (sometimes words are not selected, focus shifts to somewhere else for not apparent reason, moving the cursor to another area of the post, like inside/outside of a quote or code box is quirky, etc.). jaclaz

Didn't notice it, of course the new board software changed also that, but I can remove it since at least now the search has a "normal" magnifying glass icon instead of the senseless gear one (normally associated to "settings" or similar). jaclaz